CURRICULUM VITAE ROB REICH PERSONAL Department of Political Science Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-6044 reich@stanford.edu (650) 723-2608 (650) 723-1808 (fax) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University September 1998 - present Joint Appointment in the Program in Ethics in Society Assistant Professor, by courtesy, School of Education Affiliated with: Program in Human Biology Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Haas Center for Public Service Center for Social Innovation, Graduate School of Business EDUCATION School of Education, Stanford University September 1994 - June 1998. Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education; M.A. in Philosophy Dissertation: Liberalism, Multiculturalism, and Education Yale University 1991, B.A., Philosophy, magna cum laude, distinction in the major. AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2002 Recipient of a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Spencer Foundation and National Academy of Education 2002 Finalist for the Carnegie Scholars Program of the Carnegie Corporation. 2001-2002 Stanford Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship 2001 The Walter J. Gores Award. Stanford University's highest award for teaching, "celebrating achievement in educational activities that include
lecturing, tutoring, advising, and discussion leading," awarded each year to only two faculty members from across the entire university. 1999-2000 The Associated Students of Stanford University Distinguished Teaching Award. 2000 Visiting Fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, VA (research for work on a project on Jefferson and education). 1997-1998 The Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship, one of nine fellowships awarded by Stanford University in a broad array of disciplines across all seven of Stanford s Schools, designed to support the next generation of academic leaders. 1997-1998 Stanford Humanities Center Dissertation Resident Fellowship, one of eight fellowships awarded to Stanford doctoral students of unusual promise and achievement in the humanities. 1994-1998 Stanford School of Education Doctoral Fellowship 1996-1997 MacArthur Affiliate of the International Center for Security and Arms Control, Stanford University 1991 The Bergin Cup: Awarded by Yale University for outstanding character, scholarship, and wit in the humanities PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in Education, University of Chicago Press, 2002. CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES "A Liberal Democratic Approach to Language Justice," co-author with David Laitin, to appear in Political Theory and Language Justice, Will Kymlicka and Alan Patten, eds., under review at Oxford University Press. "Common Schooling and Educational Choice", an entry to appear in the forthcoming A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, Randall Curren, ed., Blackwell Publishers, 2002. "Multicultural Accommodations in Education," forthcoming in Education and Citizenship in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities, Walter Feinberg and Kevin McDonough, eds., Oxford University Press, 2002. 2
"Testing the Boundaries of Parental Authority Over Education: The Case of Homeschooling," Political and Moral Education, NOMOS XLIII, Stephen Macedo and Yael Tamir, eds., New York: New York University Press, 2001. Revitalizing the Ecosystem for Youth: A New Perspective for School Reform, with Michael Timpane," reprinted in Perspectives: Educational Leadership, Linda Orozco, ed. Coursewise Publishing, 1999. REFEREED ARTICLES "The Civic Perils of Homeschooling," an invited article to appear in Educational Leadership, April 2002. "Opting Out of Education: Yoder, Mozert, and the Autonomy of Children," forthcoming in Educational Theory. Families and Schools as Compensating Agents in Moral Development for a Multicultural Society, with Susan Moller Okin, The Journal of Moral Education, Vol. 28, No. 3, 1999. Confusion About the Socratic Method: Socratic Paradoxes and Contemporary Invocations of Socrates, in Philosophy of Education: 1998, Philosophy of Education Society, Urbana, IL. Revitalizing the Ecosystem for Youth: A New Perspective for School Reform, with Michael Timpane, Phi Delta Kappan., February 1997. The Paradoxes of Education in Rorty s Liberal Utopia, in Philosophy of Education: 1996, Philosophy of Education Society, Urbana, IL. Re-Examining the Team A - Team B Exercise, The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1989. WORK IN PROGRESS The Moral Status of Children in Liberal Societies, a new book-length project. "'The Keystone of the Arch of Our Government': Thomas Jefferson and the Political Theory Behind Public Schooling", an invited paper currently under preparation for a special issue of The School Field, to appear 2002. BOOK REVIEWS Lainie Friedman Ross's Children, Families, and Health Care Decision-Making (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), forthcoming in Philosophy in Review. 3
Rosemary Salomone's Visions of Schooling: Conscience, Community, and Common Education (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000) forthcoming in American Journal of Education. Stephen Macedo's Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999) in Philosophy in Review Vol. 20 (6) (December 2000): 430-1. INVITED PRESENTATIONS/LECTURES Health Care and Adolescent Decision-Making, a paper delivered to the Biomedical Ethics Working Group on The Moral Status of the Child, Yale University, April 2002. "Ethical Questions about Education: Public, Private, and Homeschooling," an invited lecture delivered as part of the Applied Ethics Lecture and Workshop Series at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, March 2002. "Moral Status of Children in Liberal Societies, an invited presentation at New York University's School of Education, February 2002. "Authority Over the Lives of Children: Tensions Between Parents and the State," a presentation at the Stanford Humanities Center, October 11, 2001. "Service, Citizenship, and Politics: A Plea for Plurality", presented at the annual American Political Science Association meeting, San Francisco, September, 2001. "The Limits of Parental Authority Over Education: The Case of Homeschooling," presented at the annual American Political Science Association meeting, San Francisco, September, 2001. "Homeschooling and Parental Authority over Education", presented at the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, Oxford University, April 2001. "The Boom in Home Schooling: Ethical, Social, and Academic Questions," presented at a faculty seminar at the Stanford University Center on Adolescence, October 2000. "Testing the Boundaries of Parental Authority Over Education: The Case of Homeschooling," presented at a conference on the Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education, University of Leuven, Belgium, October 2000. "Multicultural Accommodations in Education," presented at the Collective Identities and Cosmopolitan Values conference at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 2000. 4
"Homeschooling and Civic Education," presented at the Fostering Youth's Civic Engagement and Participation in Free and Democratic Societies conference at Brown University, June 2000. "Autonomy and Education" presented to the Identity and Inequalities Faculty Workshop, part of the Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Program, Stanford University, May 2000. "African-American Children and Youth: Life Chances and Opportunities," a response on a panel at the Stanford University Conference on Race, Stanford University, November 1999. "What Does it Mean to be Autonomous?" presented to the Stanford Humanities Center Workshop on Autonomy, Stanford University, October 1999. "Liberalism, Civic Education, and Autonomy," presented at the annual American Political Science Association meeting, Atlanta, September, 1999. "What Does it Mean to be Autonomous?" presented to the political theory facultygraduate student group at Stanford University, May 1999 Privatizing Schooling: Ethical Considerations of School Vouchers, Charter Schools, and Homeschooling, presented at the Ethics@Noon Colloquium, Stanford University, May 1999. How Not To Teach Moral Relativism, presented at a conference on Moral Education in a Diverse Society, Duke University, April 1999. Inclusion and Accommodation, a response to Elizabeth Kiss and Josiah Ober at a conference on Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism at Stanford University, April 1999. Liberal Multicultural Education, presented at the annual American Educational Research Association meeting, San Diego, April 1998. A History of Multicultural Education in the United States, presented at the annual American Educational Research Association meeting, San Diego, April 1998. Confusion About the Socratic Method: Socratic Paradoxes and Contemporary Invocations of Socrates, presented as a feature plenary session at the annual Philosophy of Education meeting, Boston, March 1998. Liberalism, Multiculturalism, and Civic Education, presented to the Education department at Brown University, February 1998. 5
Does Teaching for Tolerance and Autonomy Constrain Diversity? presented at a conference on Moral Education in a Diverse Society, Duke University, February 1998. Common Schools and Rawls s Political Liberalism, a response delivered at the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society, Vancouver, Canada, April 1997. A Liberal Theory of Multicultural Education delivered at the Fall meeting of the California Association for Philosophy of Education, Sacramento, CA, October 25, 1996. Current Research on Service Learning delivered at the CalServe Institute, Pomona, CA, August 1996. The Paradoxes of Education in Rorty s Liberal Utopia delivered at the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society, Houston, TX, April 1996. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE EDITORIAL/REVIEW BOARD Educational Theory The School Field The Journal of Philosophy of Education TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Political Science, Ethics in Society, and Education Current courses include: Political Science 53N: Plato and Aristotle on Justice Political Science 158R: Children s Citizenship (Cross listed in Education, American Studies, Program in Human Biology, Program in Ethics in Society) Political Science 159R: Ethics and Politics of Public Service (Cross listed in American Studies, Program in Ethics in Society, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Urban Studies, Human Biology, Public Policy) Political Science 256R: Philosophical Approaches to Multiculturalism (Cross listed in Program in Ethics in Society, Education) Political Science 268: Contemporary Theories of Justice Ethics in Society 190: Honors Seminar Continuing Studies: What Makes a Good School? [offered through Stanford's continuing studies program] 6
Founder and Co-Director, Stanford Summer Philosophy Discovery Institute Created and co-direct a residential summer philosophy program for high school students. Provides high school students an introduction to philosophy with the long-run goal of increasing enrollment, especially minority enrollment, in college-level philosophy courses. Institute attracted applicants from across the United States and from Canada, Europe, and Asia in its first year; it doubled in size in 2001, and now enrolls 50 students. Wrote and secured a 10K grant from the Hewlett Foundation in 2000, and a 15K grant in 2001. Co-Founder and Instructor, Stanford Community Program in the Humanities Designed and helped to implement a new program to provide Humanities courses to low income members of the communities surrounding Stanford. Course began at Hope House, a residential substance abuse facility for women in Redwood City, CA, in April 2001. High School Teacher, Los Altos High School, Los Altos, CA 8/97-1/98 Designed and volunteered to teach a class entitled Philosophy and Social Justice for high school students of all grade levels and abilities. Class offered as an elective; received 100+ applications and enrolled 34 students. Sixth Grade Teacher, Rusk Elementary School, Houston, TX 1992-1994 OTHER EMPLOYMENT/RESEARCH Senior Research Associate, The Aspen Institute 1/99 - present Contribute to planning, design, and execution of annual conference at the Aspen Institute. Author of a conference report on the transformation of the American High School, 2001. Assisted in editing of a book containing essays from a conference on The Democratic Purposes of Schooling (University of Kansas Press, 2000). Draft grant proposals, compose white papers, organize conference materials. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS The American Educational Research Association (AERA) The American Political Science Association (APSA) The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP) Philosophy of Education Society (PES) Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) 7